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These Trails: These Trails

July 15 2011, 1:01am, The Times

This forgotten gem from 1973 by These Trails is so low-key it almost didn’t exist at all. This self-titled album of delicate, otherworldly psychedelic folk is from a band who actually managed to split up a few months before they formed. Margaret Morgan was a teenager in Hawaii who, much to her family’s dismay, got involved in the islands’ dope smoking, surfing, meditating culture of the early Seventies. With her cosmically inclined boyfriend Patrick Cockett, she began to write and record beautifully charming songs about their simple way of life.

They recorded some of these gentle jewels at a studio in Honolulu, but sadly hassle from The Man, in the form of Margaret’s mother, meant Morgan was whisked back home before the album was completed.…